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This movie leaves you with more questions than answers (spoilers)

posted 12 years ago by snesss
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I really did like the premise of the movie. Science vs. paranormal. But this movie leaves you with more questions than answers. The director failed to connect all the dots in the end and like many on this forum, I have my complaints.

1) Really? Psychics can cause earth quakes and cause buildings to crumble? This was the most annoying part for me in the movie. I am willing to buy into the fact that Tom was the psychic, but I just can't believe the building crumbling, the birds diving into the windows, the messed up Tom's house and all that jazz.

Can psychics really do all this stuff? It really took the movie to a lower level for me.

2) And really, what was up with that dark hallway and a cheapo motel room and conversation between Silver and Tom?

3) Why did Silver send someone to beat up Tom in the end? Clearly, Tom has no proof till that point. And even if he did, what does it matter. The show was the last one.

This movie left lot to wish for. Poor direction was probably the reason.

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it...

[–] kjs-2 12 years ago

One person in all 30 years of research has actual things happen around him. I wouldn't say he is doing it since it seems out of control.

2. It was an abandoned building that Silver uses to not attract attention to do one on one sessions with people who really work hard to see him. That was Silver's story anyways. Possibly all set up to impose the fiction of Silver as a powerful person. What was with the conversation? Tom was less afraid and actually went all the way in. And Silver was trying as hard as possible to seem imposing: the salt, locking up his towel in a safe, the lighting, the hand touching the wall all of a sudden. Psychological tricks to try to dissuade Tom from his pursuit one last time. The same weird lady leaving the room both times he visited and the freaky man the second time. Probably all staged so that the visitor might believe something more is going on.

3. Silver does not know how much Tom knows. Also, Silver doesn't want to keep being pursued by someone who may be dangerous. Seems a natural way for an unscrupulous person who acts out of fear and self-preservation to deal with Tom.

I hope this helps! -Karl

[–] Mrpinkeye 11 years ago

nice explanation of the creepy room :) thankyou

id still wanna know how silver projected the images onto the film in the camera, or how he moved the water with his hand....

[–] mystee_reyne 12 years ago

To answer the first part of your question. Tom, by definition wasn't really a psychic. And Silver wasn't posing as a psychic either. What Silver was pretending to have and what Tom had, was psionic power, much like the girl Carrie, in Stephen King's book and movie by the same name. Wikipedia defines this as "the practice, study, or psychic ability of using the mind to induce paranormal phenomena. Examples of this includes empathy, telepathy, telekinesis, and other workings of the outside world through the psyche." So, the term "psychic" was just the film's cheap and easy way of categorizing this paranormal ability.

[–] joao-pebre 11 years ago

1) What do you mean? This is just a movie, it's fiction, psychics can't do anything you can't do yourself. If you want more information just read stuff about police interrogation techniques.